Military Diving
Military Diving is a branch of Professional Diving done by the armed forces.
The first recorded Military Diving occurred in 1838 after failing to place explosive charges on a collier wreck using the diving bell from the Naval Dockyard. Because of this, Royal Engineer Colonel Charles William Pasley trained his soldiers in using the different pieces of Diving Equipment. After only a short period, the explosives were placed and the wreck was demolished.
From then on, Military Diving has developed into several specializations. There are combat or assault divers, work divers who do general work underwater and divers who are trained in defusing mines and explosives underwater.
Mission Descriptions
Missions undertaken by military divers are classified into stealthy, covert and clandestine. Stealthy missions mean keeping out of sight when approaching the target. Covert missions, meanwhile, carry out an action, which the enemy may become aware of, but it cannot easily be discovered who or what did it. Using stealth as an approach, covert missions often involve military force that cannot be hidden once it has happened. Clandestine missions, on the other hand, are really top secret operations. The enemy should not find out that an action has happened. One of the best examples of this is the installation of eavesdropping devices.
The details regarding the approach and exit of Military Diving have to be kept away from the knowledge of the enemy. However, if the mission is exposed, the operation should at least remain covert or unattributable.
Military Diving Operations
Amphibious assault is the main mission of military divers. It is the stealthy deployment of land or boarding forces. Most of the military diver’s missions are simply to arrive well equipped and in top physical condition to fight on arrival.The deployment of tactical forces to assault land targets is the major reason in training military divers.
Many of their operations also include sabotage, like putting limpet mines on ships. Conversely, they also check their own ships, boats, structures, and harbors for limpet mines and other forms of sabotage.
Military divers perform clandestine surveying and clandestine underwater work as well. Clandestine surveying is surveying a beach before a troop landing. Other forms of unauthorized underwater surveying of enemy water scape can also be added in this category.
Clandestine underwater work, on the other hand, is the recovery of underwater objects and the fitting of monitoring devices on underwater communication cables in enemy waters. Both are useful in spying.
Military divers also investigate unidentified divers or sonar echoes that may be unidentified divers.
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